Regression Estimation Using Multivariate Failure Time Data and a Common Baseline Hazard Function Model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 197-213

  Cai, Jianwen ^a   Prentice, Ross L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated failure times; Counting process; Estimating equations; Marginal hazard rates; Nonparametric estimation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031302973     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009613313677     Document Type: Article

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